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NASA partners with Katalyst to reboost $500 million Swift Observatory

NASA has awarded a contract to execute a high-stakes orbital maneuver, racing against time and atmospheric drag to prevent a critical science asset from tumbling back to Earth. The target of this ...

Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out

Hundreds of scientists and engineers, NASA leaders, lobbyists, congressional staffers and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona are also discussing the search for ET. Surveilling alien worlds for signs of ...
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NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...
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Could a Government Shutdown Stall NASA’s Moonshot?

Would the next giant leap to the Moon be delayed not by a technical glitch, but by a Washington budget stalemate? With time ...